Phillip Lo Castro, 37, a guidance counselor at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens. was arrested. (David Wexler for New York Daily News)

A guidance counselor was cuffed after he tried to stop police from removing an emotionally disturbed student from a Queens high school Wednesday morning, police said.

Cops showed up at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood at about 10:30 a.m., after getting a 911 call about an emotionally disturbed person, police said.

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They found a 19-year-old man, a student of the school, acting erratically, and moved to “isolate and contain” him until Emergency Services Unit officers arrived.

Police allege that Phillip Lo Castro, 37, a guidance counselor at the school, stepped in and told the officers they didn’t have the right to hold the teen, then tried to convince the teen to resist. Cops moved to arrest Lo Castro, and he punched one of them in the face, police said.

“For a guidance counselor, he’s not really giving the right guidance,” a police source said.

A Department of Education spokesman wouldn’t comment on the police version of events, but the department’s statement on the arrest hinted that the counselor was trying to help the teen.

Typically, when a school employee is arrested, the department refers to the “troubling” or “deeply troubling allegations” against the employee. Education department officials used no such language about Lo Castro Wednesday night, and said that he was trying to help the student before anyone called 911.

“EMS was called while Mr. Lo Castro was assisting a student, and we’ve reassigned him away from the school pending an NYPD investigation. We will continue to cooperate with NYPD as they investigate,” department spokesman Doug Cohen said.

Police took the teen to Elmhurst General Hospital for observation, and charged Lo Castro with felony assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing government administration and disorderly comment.